I booted from cd to install 7.10 kubuntu and went through the wizard to find harddisks and nothing shows up. I have 2 250 gig drives one running vista eternity, but none of them show during the wizard. Any ideas anyone?

My problem is not identical, however I am having a problem (was having and maybe with this help it's fixed) I found a number of posts on these NEW ASUS boards and there are lot's of issues that require some minor to major config. So far with these instruction, my system is not installing software (I hope), yours sounds familiar and maybe this will help you:

FIRST: Ensure your CD drive is on the first SATA port (that really appears to be a problem)

SECOND - If you get the spash screen and the option to click on "install Linuxmce" hit F6

Many motherboards have the ability to make the SATA ports for the hard disks emulate the older IDE ports, so that older operating systems can run unmodified. Check out your motherboard's manual for more info about how to do this.